ARGENTINA: No Plaques

Despite pep talks to labor, Argentine
factory production is down 40%. Despite import curbs, gold and exchange
resources are dropping at the rate of about $2,000,000 a day.
Shortages multiply in such essentials as oil. Last week, in his own
way, President Perón explained what all this meant to his Five-Year
Plan: Said he: "Other governments . . . when they initiated a project
calculated whether they could finish it in four or five years' time so
that upon completion they could install plaques with the names of the
President and his ministers. ... I have projected a Five-Year...